Predicament and Breakthrough (Please Vote)

When Lox realized that this world, codenamed 3206, was actually the Transformers universe, he had expected it to be a plundering war with little suspense.

After recuperating in the 1661 X-Men universe, the military forces under Lox's command had recovered to a considerable extent.

Especially after the appearance of Primaris Space Marines and Sentinel Iron Men, his confidence had swelled even further.

Whether it was the Autobots represented by Optimus Prime or the Decepticons represented by Megatron, their struggle on Earth had been nothing more than a minor scuffle.

Even the twenty-first-century American military could severely damage or even kill Transformers with missiles and artillery. These Cybertronians were not as powerful as imagined.

Lox's expeditionary war fleet would likewise have little trouble dealing with these Transformers.

Primaris Space Marines equipped with Infinite Engines could easily kill these silicon-based lifeforms.

But now, reality had poured a bucket of cold water over Lox, instantly sobering him up.

Unicron's instinctive counterattack while dormant had lasted only three seconds, yet the sand touched by those energy beams had undergone structural reorganization at the quantum level.

The grains covering the Mojave Desert had transformed into some strange substance made of dark-red metal.

The ozone smell produced by atmospheric ionization had yet to disperse when air from elsewhere finally filled the void left by that earth-shattering strike.

Yet the wreckage and devastation strewn across the ground still spoke of the danger that had just occurred.

The hole through which the dark cosmos could be seen with the naked eye slowly vanished and blurred.

Weather stations within thousands of kilometers had been torn apart like paper, and some particularly unlucky humans had not even left bodies behind.

Lox could even imagine that if Unicron truly awakened because of his provocation, Earth would be the first to perish.